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|accepted_name=Carex tuckermanii
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=49: 48, plate Ff, fig. 117. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|common_names=Carex de Tuckerman
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vesicariae;Carex tuckermanii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Vesicariae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex tuckermanii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 502, 505
|treatment_page=page 506
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes short or inconspicuous. <b>Culms</b> trigonous in cross section, 40–120 cm, smooth distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, 2–5 mm wide, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–35 cm; proximal bract 25–70 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal (1–)2–3(–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal spreading or pendent, cylindric; terminal 1–3 spikes staminate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales narrowly ovate, 3.9–5.2 × 1.2–2.4 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex acute, awnless. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, often green or straw colored, strongly 7–12-veined, veins running to beak, broadly elliptic, 7.5–12.5 × (4–)4.5–7 mm, apex contracted; beak 2.4–4.8 mm, smooth, bidentate, teeth straight, 0.7–1.9 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, trigonous, asymmetric, deeply indented on 1 face, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Deciduous swamp forests, thickets, often along streams or pond shores, wet meadows
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
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name=Carex tuckermanii
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Deciduous swamp forests, thickets, often along streams or pond shores, wet meadows
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1845
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vesicariae
|species=Carex tuckermanii
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